Christian Peace and Nonviolence: A Documentary History
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Christian Peace and Nonviolence: A Documentary History edited by Michael G. Long (Orbis, 2011)
Table of Contents:
Hebrew Scriptures : Isaiah 11:6-9 ; Jeremiah 6:13-14 ; Micah 4:1-4
Living toward a vision / Walter Brueggemann
Sermon on the Mount : Matthew 5:1-12 ; Matthew 5:38-42
Jesus and nonviolence : a third way / Walter Wink
New Testament texts : Romans 5:8-10, 12:14, 16a, 17-21 ; Hebrews 10:32-34 ; 1 Peter 2:21, 23
Violence in defense of justice / Richard B. Hays
First apology ; Dialogue with Trypho / Justin Martyr
A plea concerning Christians / Athenagorus
Letter to Diognetus
Apology ; On idolatry ; The shows ; On the crown ; On Marcion ; On patience / Tertullian
Against Celsus ; Homilies on Joshua / Origen
To Donatus ; On the advantage of patience / Cyprian
Apostolic tradition
Early Christian martyrs : The acts of Maximilian ; The acts of Marcellus
Against the heathen / Arnobius
The divine institutes / Lactantius
Canon 13 / Basil of Caesaria
Nonviolence and peace in early and Eastern Christianity / John Anthony McGuckin
On riches / Pelagius
Poem 17 ; Letters 18 and 25 / Paulinus of Nola
Life of St. Martin / Sulpicius Severus
The rule of St. Benedict / Benedict of Nursia
Penitentials : Penitential of Finnian (525-550) ; Penitential of Theodore (668-690) ; Penitential ascribed to Bede (c. 750)
Commentary on the Rule of Saint Benedict / Smaragdus
Peace of God
The martyrdom of Boris and Gleb
Truce of God : The earliest Truce of God, proclaimed in the Diocese of Elne, 1027 ; Truce of God, proclaimed at the Council of Narbonne, August 25, 1054 ; Canons of the Second Lateran Council, 1123
Letter to Bishop Olderic / Peter Damian
The earlier rule 1209/10-1221 ; The canticle of the creatures (1225) / Francis of Assisi
Short work in three parts / Humbert of Romans
The twelve conclusions of the Lollards
On the triple division of society / Peter Chelcicky
The education of a Christian prince / Desiderius Erasmus
Letter to Thomas Müntzer / Conrad Grebel
Introduction to wisdom / Juan Luis Vives
Brotherly union of a number of children of God concerning seven articles / (The Schleitheim confession)
Letter to Johann Kuna von Kunstadt / Jakob Hutter
Account of our religion, doctrine and faith / Peter Riedemann
Reply to false accusations / Menno Simons
The only way / Bartolomé de Las Casas
The true levellers standard / Gerrard Winstanley
Paper to friends to keep out of wars and fights / George Fox
Epistle of love and friendly advice / Robert Barclay
An essay toward the present and future peace of Europe / William Penn
Journal of John Woolman / John Woolman
A short and sincere declaration / Pennsylvania Mennonites and German Baptists
War inconsistent with the religion of Jesus Christ / David Dodge
Sermon against war / Priscilla Cadwallader
Nonresistance Society : declaration of principles / William Lloyd Garrison
My opposition to war / Frederick Douglass
Christian nonresistance / Adin Ballou
An address on war / Alexander Campbell
Narrative of Sojourner Truth / Sojourner Truth
Nonresistance, or The spirit of Christianity restored / William C. Thurman
Hostile brotherhood / Joshua Blanchard
The subject of peace is taking hold / Lucretia Mott
Periodical war madness / Charles Spurgeon
Good news / Dwight L. Moody
The subjective for social settlements / Jane Addams
Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby / Leo Tolstoy
Resist not evil / Clarence Darrow
The awful war seems near / A.J. Tomlinson
A statement to my people on the eve of war / John Haynes Holmes
Resolution concerning the attitude of the General Council of the Assemblies of God toward any military service which involves the actual participation in the destruction of human life / General Council of the Assemblies of God
Love your enemies? / Ammon Hennacy
Peace tactics and a racial minority / Howard Thurman
The unknown soldier / Harry Emerson Fosdick
The church and war / Evelyn Underhill
Training / Muriel Lester
The Christian's dilemma / Georgia Harkness
If America is drawn into the war, can you, as a Christian, participate in it, or support it? / Ernest Fremont Tittle
Our country passes from undeclared war to declared war; we continue our Christian pacifist stand / Dorothy Day
Letter to Local Draft Board No. 63 / Bayard Rustin
Message to the Church of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon / André Trocmé
The bells of Nagasaki / Takashi Nagai
We have abandoned war / Toyohiko Kagawa
Theology of despair: an open letter to Reinhold Niebuhr / A.J. Muste
The faith of a Christian pacifist / Kirby Page
Peace is the will of God / Historic peace churches and the International Fellowship of Reconciliation Committee
Nonviolence and racial justice / Martin Luther King, Jr.
Statement by Marjorie Swann, participant in Omaha action / Marjorie Swann
Pacem in terris / Pope John XXIII
Blessed are the meek: the roots of Christian nonviolence / Thomas Merton
The religion of Black power / Vincent Harding
The nonviolent cross / James Douglass
Our apologies, good friends / Daniel Berrigan
Letter from Delano / César Chávez
Violence : reflections from a Christian perspective / Jacques Ellul
Authority over death / William Stringfellow
An open letter to a bishop / Philip Berrigan
Spiral of violence ; The limitations of violence / Dom Helder Camara
Nonviolence and feminism / Shelly Douglass
It's a sin to build a nuclear weapon / Richard McSorley
Last Sunday sermon / Oscar Romero
We could not not do this / Daniel Berrigan
The re-creation of relationship, interpersonal and global / Elise Boulding
Social action and the need for prayer / Dorothy Friesen
God's people reconciling / Ronald J. Sider
Peacemaking: the virtue of the church / Stanley Hauerwas
A theological critique of violence / John Howard Yoder
On the care of creation: an evangelical declaration on the care of creation
Just peacemaking / Duane Friesen and Glen Stassen
Compassion and nonviolence: a spiritual path / Carter Heyward
Peace be with you: justified warfare or the way of nonviolence / Eileen Egan
The journey toward reconciliation / John Paul Lederach
Violence and nonviolence / Dorothee Soelle
Forgiveness, reconciliation, and justice: a Christian contribution to a more peaceful environment / Miroslav Volf
Compassion and nonviolence from New York to Afghanistan: reflections after September 11th / John Dear
Letter to Jerry Falwell / Mel White
Death in disguise / Donald Kraybill
Confessing Christ in a world of nonviolence / Richard B. Hays, George Hunsinger, Richard Pierard, Glen Stassen, and Jim Wallis
Salt of the earth : an Orthodox Christian approach to peacemaking / Jim Forest
One mean Mennonite mama: a pacifist parent faces her anger / Valerie Weaver-Zercher
The politics of love and war: what is our responsibility? / Robert Johansen
Interrogation and martyrdom / Gene Stolzfus
Policing and Christian forgiveness / Andy Alexis-Baker
A prayer for peace / Tracy Wenger Sadd
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[Y][Y][Y][Y][Y][Y] That looks great!!
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Agreed! Looks very interesting.
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Bridgeport, CT USA
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Rosie Perera said:
Wow, I'd love to have this in Logos!
Enthusiastic agreement - I like your suggestions generally and this one in particular.
"The Christian mind is the prerequisite of Christian thinking. And Christian thinking is the prerequisite of Christian action." - Harry Blamires, 1963
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Bump! Needed all the more today in these days of non-peace.
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